Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience in Native American Families and Communities.

Native Americans report high rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs are correlated with a variety of negative outcomes in adulthood and can be attributed in part to historical trauma. Participation in indigenous practices, family support, and social connectedness can contribute to the resilience needed to cope with the adverse impact of ACEs.

Complete Genome Sequences of Staphylococcus epidermidis Myophages Quidividi, Terranova, and Twillingate.

Staphylococcus epidermidis is an opportunistic pathogen that commonly colonizes human skin and mucous membranes. We report here the complete genome sequences of three S. epidermidis phages, Quidividi, Terranova, and Twillingate, which are members of the Twort-like group of large myophages infecting Gram-positive hosts.

Complete Genome Sequence of Serratia marcescens Phage MTx.

Serratia marcescens is a nosocomial pathogen that has evolved resistance to multiple antibiotics. Here, we present the genome sequence of myophage MTx that infects S. marcescens MTx encodes 103 proteins, with 26 being assigned a predicted function or superfamily classification, and it has little similarity with other phages at the nucleotide level.

A survey methodology for collecting fish consumption data in urban and industrial water bodies (part 1).

The potential human health risks associated with consuming fish containing hazardous substances are related to the frequency, duration, and magnitude of exposure. Because these risk factors are often site specific, they require site-specific data. In anticipation of performing a risk assessment of the lower 6 miles of the Passaic River in New Jersey (Study Area), a year-long creel/angler survey collected such site-specific data. The lower Passaic River is urbanized and industrialized, and its site conditions present unique survey design and sampling challenges. For example, the combined population of the municipalities surrounding the Study Area is nearly 330,000, but because the Study Area is tidal, state law does not require fishing licenses for anglers to fish or crab in the Study Area. The sampling challenges posed by the lack of licensing are exacerbated by the industrialization and lack of public access in the lower half of the Study Area. This article presents a survey methodology designed to overcome these challenges to provide data for accurately estimating the Study Area's angling population and the fish and crabs they catch, keep, and eat. In addition to addressing the challenges posed by an urban and industrial setting, the survey methodology also addresses the issues of coverage, avidity, and deterrence, issues necessary for collecting a representative sample of the Study Area's anglers. This article is a companion to two other articles. The first companion article describes the analytical methodology designed to process the data collected during the survey. The second presents, validates, and interprets the survey results relating to human exposure factors for the lower Passaic River.

A statistical method for analyzing data collected by a creel/angler survey (part 2).

This article describes a unique analytical method employed to characterize angler activities on the lower 6-mile stretch of the Passaic River in New Jersey. The method used data collected by a creel/angler survey that was designed to capture the information necessary to calculate the exposure factors needed to characterize the fish consumption pathway for recreational anglers in a human health risk assessment for the river. The survey used two methods to address the challenges of conducting a creel/angler survey in an urban and industrial setting with limited river access. While unique, the analytical method described in this article is based upon accepted methods of interpreting survey data and basic laws of probability. This article was written as a companion to two other articles, also in this issue and cited here, of which one describes in detail the survey methodology designed for the lower Passaic River creel/angler survey to meet various challenges unique to conducting such a survey in urban and industrialized rivers, and the other presents, validates, and interprets the results of the lower Passaic River work relating to human exposure factors using the methodology described in this article.